This article examines the role that civic agriculture in Georgia (US) plays in shaping attitudes, strategies, and relationships that foster both sustainability and
adaptation to a changing climate. Civic agriculture is a
social movement that attracts a specific type of ‘‘activist’’
farmer, who is linked to a strong social network that
includes other farmers and consumers. Positioning farmers’
practices within a social movement broadens the understanding of adaptive capacity beyond how farmers adapt to
understand why they do so. By drawing upon qualitative
and quantitative data and by focusing on the cosmological,
organizational, and technical dimensions of the social
movement, the study illuminates how social values and
networks shape production and marketing strategies that
enable farmers to share resources and risks. We propose a
conceptual framework for understanding how technical and
social strategies aimed to address the sustainability goals of
the movement also increase adaptive capacity at multiple